The lengthy obituary for Allard that appears in the
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club summarizes his many contributions
as follows: "Future generations of scientists will know of Harry Allard's
co-discovery of photoperiodism, his fundamental work on tobacco mosaic
and plant breeding, his papers on the flora of Virginia, his collections
of lichens and flowering plants, and his pioneer observations on the stridulation
of insects" (p. 151). The 1955 9th edition of American Men of Science
additionally lists as his research interests: "plant breeding and nutrition;
cotton, the distribution of Fowler's toad; musical Orthoptera; mosaic
diseases of tobacco; day length and plant growth; Virginia and West Virginia
botanical notes relating to new state records; ecology and floristics
of Bull Run Mountain and other areas in Virginia."

Life Chronology

--born in Oxford, Massachusetts, on 28 January 1880.
--1899-1900: spends the winter in London when unable to get travel papers
to join the Boer rebellion
--1905: B.S. in botany and geology, University of North Carolina
--1906-1946: scientist for the Department of Agriculture (first in the
Office of Plant Breeding, then in the Office of Tobacco Investigations),
including numerous field investigations
--1908: works in Georgia, developing cotton varieties
--1911: begins studies on tobacco mosaic diseases
--1920: his first publication on photoperiodism appears in Vol. 18 of
the Journal of Agricultural Research
--1946: retires from government service
--1948: receives honorary D.Sc. from the University of North Carolina
--1956: receives the Botanical Society of America's Certificate of Merit
--dies on 25 February 1963.